Auguste Alfred Rubé

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Auguste Alfred Rubé (20 June 1817 – 13 April 1899) was a French painter noted especially for his theatre decorations.

Biography

Born in the

Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, the designer of the Opéra-Comique, whose daughter he had just married. Ciceri had the confidence of Alexandre Dumas, who reported to him and his students, Rubé, Charles Séchan, Jules Diéterle, Édouard Desplechin, but Rubé wanted to do even better: not only did he try to reproduce the landscapes accurately, he made them picturesque.[1]

The setting of the 2nd act of Âme en peine, by

The King of Lahore; the 3rd act of Gounod's Polyeucte; the 2nd scene and the 4th act of Verdi's Aida; the 2nd act of Charles-Marie Widor's La Korrigane;[5] the 1st and 4th acts of Gounod's Le tribut de Zamora; the 1st act of Delibes' Namouna; the 1st act of Gounod's Sapho; the 1st and 4th act of Reyer's Sigurd; the 1st act of Messager's Les Deux pigeons; The 3rd act of Patrie, by Émile Paladilhe; the 2nd and 5th acts of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; the 3rd scene of Saint-Saens's Ascanio.[1]

He also created the set representing the Roman Forum in

Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, the set of the Montmartre Cemetery in Edmond de Goncourt's Germinie Lacerteux at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the setting of the mysterious park in Joséphin Péladan's Sphynx, at the Théâtre-Français, a night effect of the banks of the Seine near the Institut de France in Jean de Thommeray[6] by Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau, in the same theatre.[7]

In 1858, he had painted a superb ceiling for the Théâtre-Français, depicting Apollo riding on Pegasus among the characters who inspired the masterpieces of the tragic and comic French actors, which, consumed by gas, was repainted in 1879 by Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle.[1] The last composition he worked on was the curtain of the new Opéra-Comique. The one of the Opera was also his.[7]

By the time he died, at the age of eighty, Rubé had become the dean of painters and decorators.[1] He had been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, on 14 August 1869.[7] To those who regretted that his painting skills were limited to decoration, he replied with a good smile: "What do you want, I have theatre in my blood"![8]

Rubé died on 13 April 1899, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

Judgement

He had, with his strong moustache, the appearance of a retired commander. His straightforward and highly ethical nature responded well to his frank and open face.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Par-ci, par-là". Le Voleur illustré: Cabinet de lecture universel. 72e année (in French). Vol. 51, no. 2182. Paris. 1899-04-30. p. 274. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Nos Échos". Le Journal (in French). No. 2391. Paris. 1899-04-15. p. 1. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  3. ^ Before him, under Louis XIII, each site was simply indicated on a background. Corneille's adoption of the unity of place in his tragedies led to a single set. Despite attempts, during the 18th century, to fight against this theatrical conception which restricted action, it was not until the dramatic revolution of Victor Hugo, Dumas and Vigny that living dramas were conceived and reality reproduced on stage.
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  5. ^ La Korrigane on BnF
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  7. ^ a b c "Nécrologie". La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: Supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts (in French). No. 16. 1899-04-22. p. 147. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Les Peintres décorateurs". Le Gaulois: Littéraire et politique (in French). No. 6334. 1899-04-14. p. 1. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  9. ^ Santillane (1899-04-15). "Un grand décorateur". Gil Blas (in French). No. 7089. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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